An increasingly important part of contemporary merger control both in the US and the EU is unilateral effects analysis … application of these sophisticated economic tools by the EU and US authorities so far. This makes an in-depth study of the case …. Therefore, we highlight certain similarities as well as (minor) differences between the EU and US proceedings. Interestingly …

. In the E.U., competition law is effectively “constitutional” by virtue of its being part of the Treaty on the Functioning … to the reconciliation of conflicting concerns. The E.U. approach is less flexible but may provide greater predictability …

.S. and the EU, with exemplary looks at England and Germany, delineating the boundaries of the right to damages in the two … position in the EU approves of cartel supplier damage claims. We show that this is consistent with the ECJ case law and in line … with the new EU Damages Directive. From a comparative law and economics perspective, we argue that more generous supplier …